Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant rises to 857 m in New York. Slide Mountain stands 1,266 m to the west-southwest, 4.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Cross Mountain, a peak 1.1 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off.
The story
Mount Pleasant is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York state, USA, northwest of Olivebridge. Cross Mountain is located southwest and Romer Mountain is located north-northwest of Mount Pleasant.
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Wikidata Q34883220, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 857 m
How to reach it
- 15.5 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- White Dot · 18 mi
- Copes Lookout · 20 mi
- Sentinel Rock · 20 mi
- Hayes Lookout · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cross Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Terrace Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Romer Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Samuels Point: 2.4 mi
- Wittenberg Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Catskills Visitor Center: 2.1 mi
- Simpson Mini-Park: 3.4 mi
- Parish Field: 3.5 mi
- Lester S. Davis Park: 4.8 mi
- Grant Avery Park: 5.8 mi
- Mount Tremper Unit: 1.5 mi
- Mount Pleasant Unit: 1.7 mi
- Woodland Valley Unit: 1.9 mi
- Romer Mountain Unit: 2.1 mi
- Simpson Ski Slope: 3.3 mi
- Cornell Falls: 3.1 mi
- Otter Falls: 5.7 mi
- Winchell's Falls: 9.2 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 9.3 mi
- Diamond Notch Falls: 10.1 mi
- Historic New York Catskill Mountains ~ Shandaken Area: 1.6 mi
- John Burroughs Monument: 4.6 mi
- Curtiss & Ormsbee Monument: 6.4 mi
- J. Waldo Smith Monument: 7.9 mi
- Yale Quarry: 8.2 mi
- Samuels Point: 2.6 mi
- Cornell Crack: 3.3 mi
- Giant Ledge: 4.5 mi
- Snake Rocks Cliff: 7.9 mi
- Spencers Ledge: 9.0 mi
- Empire State Railway Museum: 3.2 mi
- Woodstock Artists Association & Museum: 9.7 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 13.2 mi
- Piano Performance Museum: 13.2 mi
- Hurley Heritage Museum: 14.7 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 3.3 mi
- Fabulous Furniture Sculpture Garden: 3.5 mi
- Winnisook: 8.5 mi
- Rip Van Winkle: 12.1 mi
- The Great Knot: 13.8 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 10.6 mi
- Tongore Park Beach: 14.0 mi
- Saugerties Beach: 18.5 mi
- Ulster Landing Beach: 18.8 mi
- Kingston Point Beach: 19.1 mi
- Clinton Avenue U.M.C. Community Garden: 16.9 mi
- Rondout Community Garden: 18.3 mi
- Rough Garden: 20.0 mi
- Formal Gardens: 20.0 mi
- Ellipse: 20.1 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 1.5 mi
- Rail Explorers: 3.2 mi
- Pompey’s Cave: 17.0 mi
- Hudson River Cruises: 18.6 mi
- Pratt Rock: 19.9 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 7.2 mi
- Bear Wallow: 7.5 mi
- Keyhole Spring: 7.7 mi
- Devil's Acre spring: 9.9 mi
- Piped Spring: 12.6 mi
- Notch Lake Picnic Area: 10.2 mi
- Hunter Mountain North Picnic Area: 12.7 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 19.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.5 miles of Mount Pleasant. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain | WSW 239° | 1,266 m | 4.7 mi |
| West Kill Mountain | N 6° | 1,186 m | 9.3 mi |
| Cornell Mountain | SW 227° | 1,174 m | 3.4 mi |
| Table Mountain | SW 224° | 1,166 m | 7.2 mi |
| Peekamoose Mountain | SW 220° | 1,164 m | 7.3 mi |
| Wittenberg Mountain | SW 228° | 1,153 m | 2.7 mi |
| Southwest Hunter Mountain | NNE 20° | 1,140 m | 9.4 mi |
| Panther Mountain | WNW 289° | 1,135 m | 4.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:44 | 16:29 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 20 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 57 | 46 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Slide MTN, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 960741 — Mount Pleasant, Ulster County, New York.
OpenStreetMap element node/357577531
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